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Humble Indie Bundle 7 has been just released

Dec 202012

We are close to Christmas and it’s that time again Humble Indie Bundle (HIB) number seven is been released this is the list of games that you’ll find this time: The Binding of Isaac (and its DLC, Wrath of the Lamb), Closure, Shank 2, Snapshot, and Indie Game: The Movie! And if you pay over the average, you’ll also get Dungeon Defenders (and its DLC) and Legend of Grimrock !

What’s is HIB ? in short:

The Humble Indie Bundles or Humble Bundles are a series of game bundles that are sold and distributed online at a price determined by the purchaser. The games are multi-platform, DRM-free, and independently developed, and buyers can set the revenue split between the developers, charities and humble bundle organizers.

Thanks Wikipedia.

You have time for another 14 days before this offer runs out, but let’s take a quick look at this offer

Steam for Linux available for all in less than 1 week

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Dec 182012

Valve has announced on a private mailing list that the Steam client for Linux beta will be opened to everyone from the coming week, this after an initial launch of a closed beta that lasted about 1 month.

Because of the stability provided by the client of Steam for Linux, Valve has finally decided to open the beta to everyone.
In this regard they indicate in the mailing list:

“The Open Beta will be available to the public and will increase the current population from 80K to a higher number”

5 ways to check your disk usage on Linux

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Dec 092012

In the past I’ve wrote an article about the commands du and df that can respectively give you information about the Disk Usage and the Disk Free of your Linux computer.
I personally use both of these commands a lot of times at work to check file system and/or directory, but I also understand that on a desktop with Linux you could use something more graphical to see the status of your partitions or directories, so today I’ll show you some programs that can achieve this goal: baobab, cdu, ncdu, JDiskReport and Filelight.

The different faces of PHP

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Dec 072012

This is an article of mine first published on Wazi

PHP is a widely-used language, it offers general purpose scripting that is well suited for Web development. It can be embedded into HTML, and is compatible with all major operating systems such as Linux, many Unix variants, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, RISC OS and more.

It works with most major Web servers and it’s the scripting engine of many popular software such as Wordpess, Drupal, phpBB, mediaWiki, Joomla and Moodle just to name a few.

A thing that not everyone know is that you have different choice to run PHP on your Server, the most common option is the one used in the LAMP stack(Linux+Apache+Mysql+PHP): mod_php, this is the more common way to have php working with your web server, but is not the only one and for someone is the worst in terms of performance, other options available are PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) and PHP FastCGI, another way of running a PHP script from a webserver could be ti use the traditional CGI method but for its poor performance this method is not used anymore

In this article I’ll show you the pros and cons of these different ways to use PHP with your webserver and as first thing I’ll give you a general suggestion to speed up the performance of your PHP.
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Linux shell: understanding Umask with examples

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Dec 032012

In a GNU/Linux system every file or folder has some access permissions. There are three types of permissions (what allowed to do with a file of any kind, directory included):

(r)read access
(w)write access
(e)execute access

There are also other “special” permissions, but for this article the basic permissions will be enough to illustrate how umask works, and the permissions are defined for three types of users:

(U) the owner of the file
(G) the group that the owner belongs to
(O) All the other users

umask (user mask) is a command and a function in POSIX environments that sets the file mode creation mask of the current process which limits the permission modes for files and directories created by the process. A process may change the file mode creation mask with umask and the new value is inherited by child processes.

In practice with umask you can define the permissions of the new files that your process will create.
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